Patents by Inventor Shingo Tsukada

Shingo Tsukada has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240145112
    Abstract: Conductive polymer fibers 10, in which a conductor 12 containing a conductive polymer impregnates and/or adheres to base fibers 11, and the aforementioned conductive polymer is PEDOT-PSS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Akiyoshi SHIMADA, Koji SUMITOMO, Keiichi TORIMITSU
  • Publication number: 20240130659
    Abstract: A state estimation device includes an information acquisition unit acquiring at least one of (i) electrode acquisition information indicating an electromagnetic time series that is a time series of an electromagnetic quantity that is an electromagnetic force, field, or energy applied to an electrode from which a signal indicating a state of a heart of an estimation target is acquirable or (ii) environment information that is information on a time series of an environmental quantity that is an amount related to one or both of a state of motion of the estimation target and an environment in which the estimation target is present; and an estimation unit using at least one of the electrode acquisition information or the environment information to determine whether an electrode event, which is an abnormality in acquisition of a signal indicating the state of the heart of the estimation target by the electrode, has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kentaro TANAKA, Shingo TSUKADA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20240057924
    Abstract: A signal analysis device includes an analyzer that, upon approximating a time waveform of an R wave by a waveform obtained by a difference between a first cumulative distribution function and a second cumulative distribution function, acquires at least some of parameters identifying at least one of the first unimodal distribution, the first cumulative distribution function, the second unimodal distribution, or the second cumulative distribution function, upon approximating a waveform obtained by reversing a time axis of a time waveform of a T wave by a waveform obtained by a difference between a third cumulative distribution function and a fourth cumulative distribution function, acquires at least some of parameters identifying at least one of the third unimodal distribution, the third cumulative distribution function, the fourth unimodal distribution, or the fourth cumulative distribution function, and acquires a parameter indicating activity of a myocardium of the heart by calculating acquired parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20240050018
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a signal analysis device including: a biological information acquisition unit that acquires time-series biological information regarding pulsation of a heart that is an analysis target; and an analysis unit that acquires information indicating a state of an activity of an ion channel on the basis of the biological information and distribution candidate information using, as the distribution candidate information, information indicating candidates for channel activity timing distribution which is distribution of timings of the activity of the ion channel in the heart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20240032842
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is an electrode arrangement method for arranging a first-axis positive electrode and a first-axis-negative electrode which is an electrode different from the first-axis positive electrode, wherein the first-axis positive electrode is arranged on a body surface of a wearer, and a first-axis negative electrode is arranged on the body surface of the wearer so that a first observation axis, which is a straight line connecting the first-axis positive electrode and the first-axis negative electrode, passes through a cardiac apex part or a ventricle anterior wall of the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSUKADA
  • Publication number: 20240016433
    Abstract: A signal analysis device includes a biological information acquisitor that acquires a waveform of a time section of an R wave included in a waveform for one cycle indicating a cardiac cycle of a heart of an analysis target as a target time waveform, and an analyzer that, upon approximating the target time waveform by an approximate time waveform that is a time waveform obtained by a difference or a weighted difference between a first cumulative distribution function and a second cumulative distribution function, acquires at least one of at least some parameters of parameters identifying a first unimodal distribution, at least some parameters of parameters identifying the first cumulative distribution function, at least some parameters of parameters identifying a second unimodal distribution, or at least some parameters of parameters identifying the second cumulative distribution function as a parameter indicating activity of a myocardium of the heart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo TSUKADA
  • Patent number: 11866173
    Abstract: Provided is a G tolerance improvement device provided with: an estimation unit that estimates either or both of a body fluid volume in the head of a user and a change amount of the body fluid volume; and a pressurization unit that applies pressure to the user on the basis of either or both of the body fluid volume and the change amount estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11862359
    Abstract: Conductive polymer fibers 10, in which a conductor 12 containing a conductive polymer impregnates and/or adheres to base fibers 11, and the aforementioned conductive polymer is PEDOT-PSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima, Akiyoshi Shimada, Koji Sumitomo, Keiichi Torimitsu
  • Publication number: 20230416665
    Abstract: A three-dimensional structure including a polymer film having a plurality of layers, wherein a microparticle is encapsulated in an internal space of the three-dimensional structure and each layer of the polymer film having the plurality of layers has mechanical strengths different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuhiko TESHIMA, Yuko UENO, Satoshi SASAKI, Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Touichiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20230355186
    Abstract: A motion evaluation method includes: a noise removal step of removing noise in time-series data related to a motion of a person; an extraction step of extracting data of an on-set section in which the motion of the person is performed from the time-series data from which the noise has been removed; a compression step of aligning a length of the extracted data of the on-set section for each on-set section and compressing the data of the on-set section through down-sampling processing; and an evaluation step of evaluating the motion of the person on the basis of the compressed data of the on-set section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kentaro TANAKA, Shingo TSUKADA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20230207114
    Abstract: A biological information analysis system includes a data reception unit that receives time-series data of biological information from a sensor terminal that acquires biological information, a storage unit that stores the received time-series data, a first representative value acquisition unit that acquires a first representative value based on data in a predetermined period among the received time-series data, and a second representative value acquisition unit that acquires a second representative value based on a plurality of first representative values consecutive on a time axis. In a case where an error occurs in communication between the data reception unit and the sensor terminal and a predetermined condition is satisfied, the first representative value acquisition unit uses pre-error time-series data transmitted before the error occurs and stored in the storage unit and post-error time-series data transmitted from the sensor terminal after the error occurs, to acquire the first representative value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki OGASAWARA, Kentaro TANAKA, Shingo TSUKADA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Toichiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20230197316
    Abstract: A composite wiring includes: elastic wiring comprising an elastic tube, a conductor wire disposed inside the tube, and fixing portions that fix the conductor wire and the tube together at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction thereof, the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state being longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions; other wiring separate from the elastic wiring; and a connection member that connects the conductor wire of the elastic wiring and a conductor wire of the other wiring by caulking in a state of being brought into contact with each other, the connection member having an interior section sealed in a watertight manner with a sealing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11678827
    Abstract: A composite wiring includes a plurality of pieces of wiring accommodated and gathered together within an elastic sheath, wherein at least one of the pieces of wiring is elastic wiring including an elastic tube, a conductor wire arranged within the tube, and fixing portions for fixing the conductor wire and the tube at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction thereof, the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state being longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11666244
    Abstract: A foot sole pressure measurement instrument includes a measurement unit which is installed on a foot sole part of a subject and measures a pressure applied to the foot sole part of the subject, and an output unit configured to output data of the measured pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima, Nahoko Kasai, Hideo Hatta
  • Publication number: 20230131150
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a loss-of-consciousness estimation apparatus including: a ventricular state estimation unit configured to estimate whether or not a ventricular state of an estimation target is normal in a predetermined repetition cycle, based on a cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series, which is a time series of an amount correlated with a cerebral blood flow rate of the estimation target; a measurement reliability estimation unit configured to estimate reliability of the cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series; and a loss-of-consciousness probability acquisition unit configured to, based on the reliability, the estimation result of the ventricular state estimation unit, and elapsed time after a probability acquisition start time, which is a time at which it is first determined by the ventricular state estimation unit that the ventricular state is not normal after an estimation start time, which is a time of starting the repetition cycle, acquire a loss-of-consciou
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Kentaro TANAKA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Publication number: 20230119323
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a loss-of-consciousness estimation apparatus including: an out-of-range data determination unit configured to execute out-of-range data determination processing for, using an amount correlated with a cerebral blood flow rate of an estimation target as a cerebral blood flow correlation amount, a time series of the cerebral blood flow correlation amount as a cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series, and a position in a time axis direction of data of the cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series as a time position, determining whether or not the cerebral blood flow correlation amount indicated by each piece of the data is out of range of a threshold region, which is a range corresponding to the time position of each piece of the data, based on the cerebral blood flow correlation amount time series; and a ventricular state estimation unit configured to estimate a ventricular state of the estimation target based on the determination result of the out-of-rang
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Hiroshi NAKASHIMA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Kentaro TANAKA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Patent number: 11628336
    Abstract: An exercise rating and improvement system comprising: a feature amount extraction unit for extracting, from information obtained from a subject, a feature amount about exercise efficiency; an rating unit for rating exercise efficiency of the subject by comparing the extracted feature amount and a feature amount to be compared; and an improvement information providing unit for providing, on the basis of the rating result, information such that the feature amount of the subject approaches the feature amount to be compared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima, Tetsuomi Sogawa
  • Patent number: 11625603
    Abstract: A learning-type signal separation method performed using a model formulation unit, which performs learning processing based on a training-use signal including a specific component, and a training-use signal not including the specific component, the training-use signals including a common characteristic. The learning-type signal separation method includes: generating learned data by causing the model formulation unit to perform learning processing based on the training-use signal and information indicating whether or not the specific component is included in the training-use signal, to generate a data series signal in which the specific component has been separated and removed from a data series of the training-use signal; acquiring an arbitrary signal including the common characteristic; and generating, based on the acquired arbitrary signal and the generated learned data, a data series signal in which the specific component has been separated and removed from a data series of the arbitrary signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi Kurasawa, Takayuki Ogasawara, Masumi Yamaguchi, Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima, Takahiro Hata, Nobuhiko Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20230092731
    Abstract: In an emotion stabilization support device including a portable vibration generator including an oscillator (36), a motion sensor (37), and a control unit (31), the control unit (31) causes the oscillator (36) to intermittently vibrate, and the control unit (31) measures a state of the portable vibration generator detected by the motion sensor (37) and determines a state of an emotion of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo TSUKADA, Kentaro TANAKA, Masumi YAMAGUCHI, Takayuki OGASAWARA, Toichiro GOTO
  • Patent number: 11610701
    Abstract: A composite wiring includes: elastic wiring comprising an elastic tube, a conductor wire disposed inside the tube, and fixing portions that fix the conductor wire and the tube together at both ends of the tube in the lengthwise direction thereof, the length of the conductor wire between the fixing portions when the tube is in an unextended state being longer than the length of the tube between the fixing portions; other wiring separate from the elastic wiring; and a connection member that connects the conductor wire of the elastic wiring and a conductor wire of the other wiring by caulking in a state of being brought into contact with each other, the connection member having an interior section sealed in a watertight manner with a sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima